The Study of Medicine, Vol. 5 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Study of Medicine, Vol. 5 of 5

Of the mode of procreation among fishes, in consequence of their living in a different element from our own, we know but little. A few of them, as the squalus, or shark genus, some of the skates, and other cartilaginous fishes, have manifest organs of generation, and unquestionably copulate. The male shark, indeed, is furnished with a peculiar sort of holders for the purpose of maintaining his grasp upon the female amidst the utmost violence of the waves, and his penis is cartilaginous or horny. The female produces her young by eggs, which, in several species of this genus, are hatched in her own body, so that the young, when cast forth, are viviparous.

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